Poor Olly Murs. He thought being in Los Angeles would be a never-ending parade of blue skies, green juices and being mistaken for a young Brad Pitt (if you squinted a bit). All he got was unrelenting pain.

The Troublemaker star shared a video of himself hanging out in the ultra-cool Venice Beach area of LA, just casually attempting to do a rad move on the nearby parallel bars.

But while the first part of his manoeuvre – a gravity-defying handstand with his legs up in the air – went well, the next move did not.

Up... up... (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

And down (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

Oh dear... (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

Instead of flipping over and landing elegantly on his feet, the singer managed to twist his body so that on the downward rush, the first point of contact between his body and the metal bar was… his testicles.

Olly looked like he was in agony as he tried to dismount, with his mate rushing over to 'help' – or rather to laugh at his friend's obvious discomfort.

"Please tell me you recorded that," chortled the pal to the cameraman, while Olly tried to look like he hadn't just been castrated.

Oh, Olly (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

This is the face of a man who is looking into the abyss (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

His friends just laughed while Olly tried to get his breath back (Image: Olly Murs/Instagram)

"I think I broke my leg," said the singer, clearly too addled to remember the medical name for his crotch.

He bent double to catch his breath while his two friends just laughed at him.

Let's hope he gets home in one piece to his rumoured new girlfriend, aspiring pop star Nadine Hermez, with whom he was seen on a date at London's JuJu's club in late April.

Nadine Hermez, an aspiring pop star (Image: Instagram)

The pair were spotted on a date in April (Image: Instagram)

At the time, a source told The Sun : "Olly and Nadine were in a quiet corner and seemed very close.

"Most of the time they had linked arms and Nadine was stroking Olly's arm. He was also very touchy-feely with her. They definitely looked like a couple rather than two friends."

Olly has been single ever since splitting from long-term love Francesca Thomas in 2015.